You can’t solve the food price crisis without decent wages. Whilst profits go up, big supermarkets like Asda still expect their employees wages to go down, this has to stop.
On the 30th of May 2023, Barry appeared on Radio 4’s Today Debate programme to discuss the topic: Is 'Greedflation' making food more expensive?
The government is giving oil and gas companies a windfall tax from us. We give them 91p for every pound they spend on drilling for North Sea oil and gas, yet we see none of the profit.
Rishi Sunak is trying to put a plaster over the deep structural wound that is food insecurity in the UK, whilst thousands in the UK struggle to feed their children all the government can think to do is implement a basic food price cap, this is not enough.